Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov